Hey Andrea, do you have an email address at which we could contact you regarding this video? We would be interested to discuss a license to use this video if this is generally possible? (i.e. via email) :) Cheers, Felix
Lake Superior is angry here!!! It is just beautiful, here. I live in Michigan, Up- North is just stunning, come see us, we'd love to have you!!!🌲🌲🌲🌲🌊🌊🌊.....
It was much worse than this when the Edmund Fitzgerald sank with all of those crew members aboard... no survivors. And it was sleeting/snowing on top of it all. A ship wreck in severe, icy waters. Imagine what those guys experienced out in the middle of nowhere, with no one to help! Makes even one who enjoys large bodies of water want to become a landlubber!
“That’s a hundred footer!” Forgiven inaccuracy. It’s an exclamation of awe. I’ve watched Pacific storm swells break on rocky shores and my brain just couldn’t wrap itself around the situation. The wave heights were huge but sometimes it was just too much to grasp the perspective. Sometimes we need to stop the brain rattle and let ourselves be overwhelmed from the safety of a great vantage point. What a gift to be alive.
Yo estuve en Milwaukee hace unos años, y me tocó ver cómo la gente c metía al agua en año nuevo, les dicen los osos polares. Un sobrino me dijo mete la mano al agua, ya me andaba, casi c me congelo.
A fine example of the Gales of November. I met a sailor in a Fisherman's bar in FL He said he tried working on Superior for 1 season and after November he was ready to go back to dealing with Hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico. Hard to believe a Lake can be that violent.
Far more dangerous then the ocean because the frequency of the waves coming in. No room to grab one's breath, but there are people who will try. This is awesome, thanks for sharing,.
These are the type of waves that sunk the Edmund Fitzgerald in 9/10 November, 1975. However in November, 1913 a huge double hurricane force storm sank or capsized over 24 big boats on the Greats Lakes with well over 250 crewmen drowned. I don't understand why anyone wants to sail on Lake Superior in November. Worse than ocean conditions are the fact that many shallow shoals mean a ship can bottom out. This reality channelized ship traffic on Lake Superior into specific channels. The waves that sunk the Edmund Fitzgerald were 25 to 30 feet high but a rogue wave even higher could have swept over the Fitzgerald forcing its bow downward into the water causing it to plunge downward. The Fitzgerald may have had a hull issue including several big hatches that were letting in water into the ship. The captain of the Fitzgerald reported he was listing to his portside with his pumps working to remove the water from the cargo area. However, it is quite a certainty that the winds coming from the northwest were able to build up a lot of energy creating large waves. It was probably several conditions together that sunk the Fitzgerald. But the radar operator on the Arthur M. Anderson reported the Fitzgerald was there one revolution then the next scan of the radar the Edmund Fitzgerald was gone. What happened to this big ore carrier happened very suddenly with no radio distress calls. Real scary things to think about when looking at those large Lake Superior waves. I went into the Army instead of the Navy in part because of the my thinking about those 29 men on the Fitzgerald.
Thanks for posting this. Brings back old memories living in MN as a kid. I'd hike the rocky shores all around Superior/Duluth just to watch waves. I've seen some big waves on Mille Lacs Lake. favorite was big waves made of ice pushing into shore. I Live in Missoula Montana now, in the mountains.
Sorry, no documented 100- foot waves on the great lakes. The highest waves ever recorded on the great lakes was around 30 feet. Rogue waves may be higher but like bigfoot, no proof on the great lakes-yet. At any rate, a 30 foot wave is no joke......
